Sophists aren't ignorant, they are worse than ignorant.  Indeed, rather than they be uneducated, they are what I like to call diseducated.  For example, here is an article written in the Dallas Morning News by a reporter about Texas justice in which he begins by stating:

In Texas, land of law and order . . . 

Lies and deceit begin at the point of where the earliest fallacy is written.  In other words, the meanings of law and order aren't related, but they are inverses.  As the doings of the law for the sake of law is no better than chaos, the establishment of order is an effort which comes out of chaos as a desire to gain control.  Meanwhile, the ultimate dream of establishing an even better order than the prior one is a result of a people trying to rid the system altogether of the law.

If there has to be law, then the best one can rid it out of any system is to preserve and maintain it as a necessary evil or necessary tyranny.

To fight against the lies and deceit being perpetuated by the media today, it isn't necessary to point out every endless fallacy written, but to isolate the very first fallacy which misled the writer and his readers down the wrong path.  I say path because, practically speaking, the Almighty Truth is an unapproachable entity.  So, the best paths we can ever follow are those "best principled" ones which Plato spoke about regarding his Theory of the Forms.

By using this method, we can taste the article first before consuming it.  Indeed, this method allows us a chance to perceive the message a little concerning whether whether it is poisonous.  If so, we could then spit it out.

This article is poisonous.

Fd. Uncle Emanuel Watkins
Prime Minister of these united States